„Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.“

— Tupac Shakur

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„If my Valentine you won't be,I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?“
— Richard Bach
„All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country… and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.“
— Heinrich Heine
„If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.“
— Kailash Satyarthi
„Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V“
— William Shakespeare
„I never see that prettiest thing-A cherry bough gone white with Spring-But what I think, "How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.“
— Dorothy Parker
„There was one picture in particular which bothered him. It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
„In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a District Commissioner must never attend to such undignified details as cutting a hanged man from the tree. Such attention would give the natives a poor opinion of him. In the book which he planned to write he would stress that point. […] One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate.“
— Chinua Achebe